Pat's Note; The cover story for the purge at BPEX and the
re-establishment of government control.

The NFU will be untaking the same process in respect of the NPA.

Then I presume they will settle down to getting rid of the rump of the
SVS and doing something about Britain's sick pigs and associated human
disease.

Too long, too late, too crude and too slow.


http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/743620?UserKey=0

Services to be centralised under new business structure
Levy regime to make savings of £3.5m a year

By jOE WATSON

Published: 19/07/2008

Britain’s new agricultural levy regime has agreed the business
structure under which it will operate and generate £3.5million in
annual savings.

Finance, IT, levy collection, human resources, market intelligence,
business and corporate services and communications will all be
centralised at the Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board.

It has also agreed to recruit a chief scientist and a senior marketing
specialist to boost collaboration across all six of its subsidiary
bodies that are responsible for milk, horticulture, potatoes, grain
and English beef, lamb and pork.

Job cuts are expected, but AHDB has yet to say how many posts are
expected to go in a process that also involves it relocating the
offices of its subsidiaries – Bpex, DairyCo, Eblex, the Horticultural
Development Company, HGCA and the Potato Council – from various sites
in southern England to a new base at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. 

AHDB chairman John Bridge said: “Our priorities during this financial
year are threefold: firstly the successful delivery of the sector
business plans without undue interruption. Secondly to develop and
start to populate the operational structure for AHDB and finally to
put in place the corporate governance policies and procedures to
ensure AHDB continues to operate to the high standards set by the
former levy boards. 

AHDB took responsibility for agricultural levies across Britain in
April.

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Pat Gardiner
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